Martin Feifel

Friedrich Holderlin

Marianne Denicourt

Susette Gontard

Ulrich Matthes

Isaac von Sinclair

Nina Hoss

Margit Carstensen

Sinclair's mother

Matthias Faber

Henry Gontard

Jochen Regelien

detective

Ueli Jäggi

"Germania"

Dieter Landuris

"Marianna"

Pierre Besson

Friedrich Schelling

Tobias Langhoff

Georg Hegel

Ulrich Mühe

Jacob Gontard

Zofia Saretok

Madame Gontard d'Orville

Lech Dyblik

Piotr Gąsowski

Małgorzata Kalamat

Mariele

Redbad Klynstra-Komarnicki

Georg Hammelmann

Zofia Merle

Michał Pawlicki

Wojciech Skibiński

doctor Muller

Paweł Burczyk

camel owner (uncredited)

Witold Gajzler

(uncredited)

Krzysztof Kiersznowski

doctor Sommering (uncredited)

Tadeusz Woszczyński

servant (uncredited)

Mirosław Zbrojewicz

(uncredited)